Forty foreign institutional investors have joined the race for shares of the Vietnam Urban and Industrial Zone Development Investment Corporation (IDICO) at the firm’s initial public offering (IPO).

 Viet Nam’s enterprises feel positive about the business climate for the fourth quarter, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told a meeting of Government yesterday he was worried about the slow disbursement of public investment capital.

 The Government plans to establish a special agency to act as the ownership representative of State capital at State-owned enterprises by 2018.

 The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) and the Vietnamese Embassy in Rome, Italy, held a tourism promotion programme in Milan and Rome from October 1-3.

 Michelle Vo, a US citizen of Vietnamese origin, was among the 59 victims of the massacre in Las Vegas city, the US state of Nevada, on October 1 night. 

Ambassador Pham Thi Kim Anh highlighted the role played by education in reducing social inequality while speaking at the 72nd session of the UN Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs Committee in New York on October 3.

 Cao Khac Dat added a silver medal to Viet Nam’s bag at the World Wushu Championship in Kazan, Russia, yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge - One of the major purposes of Vietnam attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last 30 years is to receive technology to be transferred by foreign investors. 

 The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has asked the U19 squad to win a berth at the final of the Asian championship next year.

 Ly Hoang Nam won his first singles match at the Thailand F7 Men’s Futures tennis tournament yesterday in Nonthaburi Province.

 The 2017 National Tennis Championship for the Vietravel Cup has begun at HCM City’s Phu Tho Club.

The National Swimming Championship is scheduled to start tomorrow at Phu Thọ swimming club in HCM City.

 An art exhibition of trúc chỉ (bamboo paper), titled Listen To The River, was displayed for the first time at the central city’s Art Museum on Saturday.

 Oktoberfest, the biggest annual German food and beer festival, will take place Wednesday evening (October 4) at the Windsor Plaza Hotel in HCM City.

Police in central Thanh Hoa Province busted a football betting ring worth VNĐ160 billion (US$7.04 million). 

 Vietnam Railway plans to operate extra trains for Tet (Lunar New Year) from February 2 to March 4 next year.

 After the discovery of thousands of pigs injected with sedatives in a large slaughterhouse complex in Cu Chi District, HCM City authorities have ordered the immediate killing of all injected animals.

 The Vietnam Television will broadcast the documentary Mon Hanoi (My Hanoi), directed and filmed by former French Ambassador to Vietnam Jean Noel Poirier, on VTV1 channel at 8:40 pm on October 8.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the investment plan of a project to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, domestic violence and handle the issue of prostitution, using evidence and a human right-based approach.